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“It might only be a Domino's pizza, but the act of choosing toppings feels so frivolous. It's like a statement that life goes on. You're not ready for that statement.”

Book:Just Last Night

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“The connections we share with one another—the ones that mean the most to us—are never truly severed. Not across time, nor distance, nor death, even. The heaviness in your chest, that ache you feel right now, I like to believe that the strength of that emotion extends outward to somewhere far beyond us, touching those we’re missing in some way . . . wherever they are.”

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Book:The Color of Gravity

Source: The Color of Gravity

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when the other is gone.”

Grief

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.”

Grief

Author:Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

“In Life, Every Lesson Repeats Until It’s Learned. Life has a way of teaching us what we refuse to see. The same challenges, the same pain, the same mistakes, they circle back, again and again, until we finally listen. Growth begins the moment we learn the lesson, not when we escape it.”

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Author:Matheesha Prathapa

“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in translations, but true ointment lies in the soil of life. So I return, shattering shackles of sorrow - Reignite me oh life, resuscitate me unto duty! I want no more to sob through the alleys of pity - Sanctify me oh divine nature, with renewed tenacity. Today I break all spell of ominous cowardice, Today I vivify my veins as the volcanic vanguard! I refuse to be castrated by pathetic redundancy, Today I revive my vows as defender of the world!”

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Book:World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“And all the ink, all that remained of his father, was washed from my hands.”

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Book:House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

Source: House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

“The fine details in his face struck me like a knife to the chest - all the things I didn't realize I'd forgotten, like the slight crookedness to his nose or the way he favored the left side over the right. The version of him in my mind was generic, sanded down me months of absence, even as my grief clung to him.”

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Book:The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The strangest thing, Eve, is you don't know how to talk about what to have for tea.”

Loss Grief Saddness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to land the dismount from the old pain. I successfully let go of any blame or desire from a different version of a dad. He and I were both grateful when I could just easily and simply sit with him in love.”

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Book:End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

Source: End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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